Bandwidth Manager 2013

Hi Gavin, I think I know what the problem is. It currently does not work properly if you have Any-to-Any rule. Instead, create a rule with the source as the IP address range that covers your LAN, like this:

In this case BM will correctly swap MAC addresses where necessary and won't create ones for the BM machine itself.

Andrew Wrote:
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> As I only need the Lite version for personal use,
> can you please help in activating it? Do I need a
> License Key?]
>
> See the FREE link at the purchase page for the
> license key. It has just been published.
>
>
>
> Sorry, Gavin I don't quite understand. You can
> just make the rule with streams that applies on
> the LAN side (not the WAN side), so any traffic
> from the BWM machine is not affected. Please
> describe what you'd like to achieve?
>
> It would be nice if you can add feature like
> blocking website based on domain name or website
> name instead of IP address only and also a feature
> like blocking VPN tunnel client software used by
> users and a feature like blocking access to
> website using https access (sometimes user open
> prohibited website using
>
> I have added a way to catch standard tunnelling
> protocols via the DPI as shown below.
>
> [i.imgur.com]
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> As to the ability to block web-sites, I will add
> it shortly.

Hello Andrew,

I am downloading bwm in above link but still doesn't has tunnel feature. Thanks.

Thanks for the update link Andrew, btw why after I install bwm in my computer suddenly cannot connect to anywhere (internet, etc) it seems that bwm disconnect my computer connection also even I didn't do any rules creation yet, in version 2.9 my computer still can connect to internet,etc. Is this normal?. Thanks.

Andrew Wrote:
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> I remember about the refresh thing and I'll do it
> as soon as more priority tasks have been done.
>
> In the mean time, I have added an option to
> specify domain names, which could be especially
> useful for banning certain web-sites.
>
> Domain names can be specified in a rule or in a
> group in the form of domain.tld. Any sub-domains
> will match it too.
>
> For example facebook.com will match facebook.com,
> www.facebook.com, m.facebook.com and
> whatever.subdomain.facebook.com.
>
> DOWNLOAD HERE.
>
> [i.imgur.com]

I have been playing around with the trial version and found the following problems.

Port Mapping freezes up the BWM service in Win Server 2008, you still have access to the GUI and can make changes but traffic is broken through the internal bridge.
I can't get "redirect to local port"(squid) nor "redirect to web-page" to work
It works in version 2.9 perfectly but not in 3.0.1?

I am trying to redirect to a local server within my network, so my rule looks like this:

Another thing I have found is DPI does not catch P2P (torrents) correctly, I have a rule limiting the up/down speed and torrents exceed that limit by almost 6 times, it seems DPI is not catching torrents at all sometimes. :S

I have fixed a number of issues in version 3.0.2 available from the home page, including this one with chaining domain names. Please give it a go.

As to the torrent detection, well it uses heuristics and there is no guarantee it will always catch it. It however improve over time. Alternatively you can use "Penalties" that allow you to discourage heavy downloads regardless of protocols used.

I have many PCs with wireless and Wired LAN or multi LAN and I want to add all of their mac address in one rule.
Software doesn't support it properly so I use groups.
I have 49 groups so, that they are sortable by name!
So I should search the whole list to edit or change a group.
Please support in newer version.

1. I want a limitation for a PC which have wlan and 4 lans eg.
It's a host not a group but I should define it as a group.

2. In addition to that group list is not sortable.
3. It has no searchable area to search for a name.
4. It accept the same mac for many times so you can't confirm if MAC address has been used before.
5. There should be a kind of rule to shupport each host in a group or range seperately. eg. if you specify 1Mbps for the range from 192.168.0.11 to 192.168.0.20, then every host in this range has 1 Mbps and not all the range share the whole bandwidth.

This is topic is about version 3.x, which does support multiple streams per rule (with automatic creation based on IP or MAC address). So probably you won't need to use the groups at all with version 3.

With all the respect, that was just an answer for one of my requests. Thanks for that.
Think about 32 people in a group, all have same rule properties.
If it's generated by wizard, and I need a change in their rule, I should do that for 32 rules.
Is it still unnecessary?
You can tell me that our software will never support this but I tell you it's necessary for me and many others.

Hello Andrews,
Is there a way to put the "throughput graphic monitor" and the "live usage monitor" working in a FIXED scale?
I think that, in this way, it would be more informative. For example, the max value could be fixed to the limit rule rate. If I not mistaken, in the last versions, BM worked in this way.
Congratulation for your great work.

Having looked through this whole string and while i understand exporting my rules one issue i have is that i have 3 IP Groups Setup, each has around 50-100 IPs in them and i uses these groups to create rules for our office tenants.
When i upgrade i dont really want to have to sit there and type in up to 300 IPs, which i will have to as i cant put a range in as we have odd IPs scattered in these ranges that are excluded as they have unique rules specific to their IP as apposed to the rest of the tenants in that range.
Is there a way of exporting the IP groups as well to put into version 3?